We are "not" SW/Eden
We got some confusion (from one person) regarding names. Someone brought this into our attention. We are looking into this... Some people are looking into this if there are any conflicts and side effects. We are deeply committed to contribute towards the healthy and collaborative growth of the EOS.IO ecosystem (including communities and stakeholders). We will avoid any conflicts and legal issues. But first we will need to investigate. We might miss the deadlines for 1st BPs, but, we have long term vision.
For the time being there should not be any voting conflicts.... It will take some time/weeks for us to make a good judgement. It took a year for us to reach where we stand today... Once we have enough data and understanding about EOS voting issues, we will do something (until today we do not see any conflicts).
3 months old post from Eric / eosio.se: https://busy.org/@xebb/eos-block-producer-candidacy
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Name / OrganizationEric / eosio.se (subject to change)Located in Sweden
Yesterday Post from Eric : https://busy.org/@seanxa/what-s-in-a-name-eossweden-to-sw-eden
Our 16 days old post: https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@eos.sweden/welcome-to-eos-sweden
Steemit account was created prior to that and CryptPoint has history of many years...
https://steemit.com/@eos.sweden
Please do not mix us with SW/Eden and do not give us vote that belongs to them
We hope that EOS BP Identity for voting may look different for both teams and hopefully there will be no confusion. Let's help and work together to avoid this confusion (if any).
Social Networks for EOS SWEDEN
Social Media, Communication & Collaboration activities will play a key role in bringing the community together, understand the needs of various stakeholders, and to take mutually agreed actions. It will help to empower it's communities. Here are some of the Social Networks for EOS SWEDEN:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/eos-sweden/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SwedenEos
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/JCmUOFAsOgOibNuQkEMzHg
Busy.org: https://busy.org/@eos.sweden
Steemit: https://steemit.com/@eos.sweden
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cryptpoint
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6GwuAAhLBI8gcvljKr_Diw
WELCOME TO EOS SWEDEN
We are a group of EOS.IO Blockchain Enthusiasts. We supports & strives for Decentralized Community-Owned EOS Block Producers. We are confident that EOS.IO has the potential to fundamentally change global economy and social systems. It has the potential to empower it's communities, it's user base, as well as involved stakeholders. We are deeply committed to contribute towards the growth of the EOS.IO ecosystem.
Source: EOS Sweden
EOS Sweden is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. It is founded by a team of energetic, optimistic, tech entrepreneurs who are well recognized and have decades of experience in Information Security, Privacy, Governance, Legal, Compliance and Risks Management. EOS Sweden emphasis on fundamental and sound principles of Information Security in all aspects (ISO 27001/2, 27017, 27018, CSA CCM, etc.); including but not limited to:
- People (Awareness, Culture, Ethics)
- Processes (including Governance, Audit & Fraud Detection, Data Breach Notification process)
- Technology (including Vulnerability Scanning, OWASP, Pen Testing, Fraud Detection, Forensics, Auditing)
- Environment
- Legislation (including Compliance, EU GDPR, EU-US Privacy Shield, China Cyber Security Legislation)
- Geo-Politics, Organization, etc.
Source: EOS Sweden
EOS Sweden has a vision to become a well recognized productive player in the field. We aim to become a hub for Companies, Entrepreneurs, Governments, Public Safety & National Security Organizations, Developers, and Global Communities. EOS Sweden would like to build sound infrastructure and beneficial decentralized applications on top of EOS.IO.
We believe that everyone can contribute and benefit from EOS.IO. Let's we all work together for the greater good and well-being of all global and local societies.
WHY WORK WITH EOS SWEDEN AND VOTE FOR US?
We welcome anyone who is EOS.IO Blockchain Enthusiast and is willing to positively contribute for the greater good within EOS blockchain ecosystem. We fully support the EOS blockchain ecosystem constitution that enables the protection of the stakeholders (including, but not limited to: EOS individual token holders) who are part of the valid chain.
As top priority, our role is both to produce block and secure the EOS blockchain ecosystem. We will play an integral role for the awareness, education and future growth of EOS echosystem.
Bribes and Buying Votes:
- We have strong policy "against" bribes and paying money to buy votes. We do "not" accept any sum of money or other inducement offered or given to bribe someone.
Giving Back:
- We will give back to the community by Education, Awareness Activities and Meaningful Innovation. We will use part of surplus revenue to support and develop innovative DApps to help global and local communities. As we grow with time, depending on circumstances, we will also focus on developing innovative "surplus revenue sharing models" within the applicable legal and ethical boundaries.
EOS SWEDEN CORE VALUES
"It is necessary that people work together in unison toward common objectives and avoid working at cross purposes at all levels if the ultimate in efficiency and achievement is to be obtained." — Dave Packard
Our Shared Values includes, but not limited to:
Transparency: Our culture is "Default to Transparency". We will be completely open and transparent. Our issues (positives and negatives) will be put out there for the community and world to see.
Trust and Respect for Individuals: We work together to create a culture of inclusion; which is built on trust, respect and dignity for all.
Achievement and Contribution: We strive for excellence in all what we do. Each one of your's & our's contribution is critical to EOS success.
Education and Meaningful Innovation: Education (Awareness & Training) is the key for EOS echosystem to succeed and to play a major role in global economy. We will also support useful and significant initiatives in this industry.
Speed and Agility: We are resourceful and adaptable. We will achieve results faster than our competitors.
Uncompromising Integrity: We are open, honest and direct in our dealings.
Global Citizenship: We understand our responsibility to global society by being an intellectual, social, and economic asset to each country and local community independent from any discrimination.
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Popping in here to give my two cents. Eric has been a huge part of the Western worlds efforts to interact with the EOSIO software. He started the community testnets and has been a huge help to those considering running for BP.
Essentially, if anyone in the western world has actively been trying to participate in EOS they would know about Eric and SW/eden.
Which is why this is suspect; how could you not know there was already an EOS Sweden in the community? I would recommend changing your name so that neither organization is EOS Sweden to avoid this confusion - perhaps you could be EOS Stockholm?
I’m sure your team had good intentions, but trust me, you do not want the community thinking you piggybacked this name.
it could be possible issue. because of normal people could be confused for this.
Probably SW/Eden was part of EOS Community from beginning... But how big was that? We are not sure, but, I assume that:
Moreover, 1000s of EOS Token Holders may have never heard about Eric. Like we never heard about him. Majority of Token Holders were never part of Test Networks and/or having any communication with Eric. They have no idea bout this....
Well this is where just a doing research is really important. Now we know you had no intention of doing anything illegal. In addition, sometimes people forget to do the research.
Spending 2 minute looking up the folks who are working on the EOS blockchain locally would have revealed who Eric and Vahid are. In fact, Just the other day Ivan on Tech (who has 173,000 followers) was on his YouTube show and gave a "huge shout out" to Eric and Vahid from EOS Sweden. Someone responded that "We EOS Sweden and we are not Eric." Ivan's response was "I don't know who you are then. Because I know Eos Sweden and if your are not Eric, I'm not sure who you are."
What that demonstrates is that even though we are rebranding there are still thousands of people (influential people) who see us as EOS Sweden. Even when we tell them the new name -- which was only change a month ago they will still associate us with our old name.
It's clear you want to do the right thing. You have no intention of defrauding the EOS blockchain. If you did receive votes that were intended for someone else, what would you do?
vafan skärp er grabbar, riiiiiiiiiiiiktig fuling har ni gjort (english: get your shit together and change name)
@ivanli Yes you are 100% right, people who did not follow the rules made by EOS GO (EOS Community) and Swedish Laws; should change their name..... By the way we are using BP ID as swedencornet in EOS to stop them pretending us. This does not mean that we are disclaiming to be EOS + TELOS Sweden!
Hello, thanks for advice. We are 100% willing to listen, understand and cooperate with everyone in EOS communities with good attention. We respect everyone including "SW/Eden". We really did not know about Eric from beginning (still we do not know him). Eric and "SW/Eden" may have done great work and we respect them all. We thank-you to them all. We do not have any issues with them. We are "not" competing with "SW/Eden" and we are willing to give our vote to them as well. We do not want any conflict and we want to work within legal boundaries.
Sweden is well-known due to regulations. We did (and are still doing) our best to comply with both "regulations in Sweden" and "standards established by EOS Community". So we started first looking into unique names in steemit that do not conflict with anyone else. You can not have 2 identical names in steemit. And we found @eos.sweden as empty name that no body owns. As a 2nd step we also did check trademarks database in Sweden https://www.prv.se/sv/ and we did not find that anyone owns EOS Sweden. It was available and we did not find any legal company that did any attempt to register it. So after that we did decided to choose it.
We are not expert in everything and let me say that we may make mistakes. All humans make mistakes (no one is perfect). But we tried our best not to have same name as "SW/Eden". They are "SW/Eden" (please read their posts). Moreover I do not think that two or more Block Producers can have identical names in EOS Mainnet. So there is 100% guarantee that we will not have identical names in EOS echo system. [Also in Steemit more than one accounts can not be identical, it is technically NOT Possible] So, I do not understand where is the conflict?? And finally we will not compete with them or anyone else, instead we will cooperate and focus on establishing a mutual understanding and trust with everyone.
We welcome the success to everyone and we believe that everyone can contribute and benefit from EOS.IO echo system.
Hey Gents,
I don't think anyone believes you have any bad intentions towards SW/Eden. We think it is awesome that you have jumped into the EOS space and are thinking about becoming a Block Producer.
I don't think @summerskin or @cjane are arguing with you about the legality of your name choice. They are only pointing out that it will cause confusion.
As Summerskin mentioned, Eric joined the community very early on, launching the first public Testnet. He was the 2nd BP to announce his candidacy. When he did that, he chose to use the name EOS Sweden. Eric has connected with thousands of folks in the EOS community around the world. This has happened through Telegram, Twitter, other social media platforms and the Testnets. The thousands he connected with have known him as Eric from EOS Sweden. In fact, way back at the beginning, when he announced his candidacy with the folks at EOSgo that's what he used AND his URL on that EOSgo BP portal, is https://bp.eosgo.io/listing/eos-sweden/
You probably didn't notice your URL is the same except with a "2" after eos-sweden https://bp.eosgo.io/listing/eos-sweden-2/ That's really confusing.
Eric and Vahid wanted to get away from that name but were slammed with all the work they were doing with other BP candidates and didn't get around to changing the name until the start of April when I joined the team. Since we knew everyone saw them as EOS Sweden we decided to have a longer transition to the name SW/Eden much like Nissan did in the 80s when they dropped the Datsun brand.
In regard to the EOSgo BP Portal, I know it can take time to fill those out and you are running another businness. So it's understandable that you didn't have time to to look at the other BP candidates when you created your profile. Had you looked on the map, you would have seen SW/Eden right up the road from you and would have noticed their URL. If you had clicked on our site you would have read the words "EOS Sweden is SW/Eden".
Life get's busy, so you probably missed the meet-ups that Vahid hosted in Stockholm under the name EOS Sweden. Everyone knows Telegram can be chaotic, so you probably also missed BPs talking about Eric and other people like Thomas Cox from Block.One referring to Eric as "Eric from EOS Sweden".
No one is questioning your integrity. As has been pointed out by others though, keeping a name that another brand has used in the past will create voter confusion. You have stated clearly that is not your intent, Which is fantastic. We can also see that you are wanting to abide by the law. Which is also great. Could Eric have done some things different in the beginning - Possibly.
I think the only thing people are trying to avoid is confusion for the voter. We can post all we want about the name change. You can post all you want about not being SW/Eden. However, just as you demonstrated by missing all the different things about Eric and his previous incarnation as EOS Sweden, people won't always see what they need to see to make the best choice. Therefore, there will be voter confusion.
I know because of everything you have said, that is the last thing you would want.
You have some options to consider.
Hello @seanxa
Thanks for explanation. Voters will be confused if they see 2 identical names as eos-sweden for Block Producers to cast there vote after chain launches. Is that even technically possible to have 2 Block Producers with identical names? I don't think so. We are not ready yet and I assume SW/Eden is already ready and producing blocks in test networks. So there should not be any confusion from day 1 for voters to cast vote. Whenever we will be ready (if we gets ready in future) we will ensure that we do not use identical name in EOS as Block Producer's ID. We are 100% willing to listen, understand and cooperate with everyone in EOS communities. By the way our logo looks very different than SW/Eden and there is no confusion!
Identical names is not what will cause voter confusion. Some people will see EOS Sweden and think oh that must be Eric because they didn't hear about the name change - no matter how much we post - some people will miss it. There is also a good chance someone will tell their friends to vote for Eric at EOS Sweden and then their vote might not go where they intended.
Voter confusion is not about identical names but about an old name being reused by someone else.
You are right, it will be super helpful that you are waiting a bit before launching. I appreciate that you are so willing to listen and be open and consider the best way to avoid Voter confusion in the future.
The issue is not legal names, who has what registered, etc. It is a community issue.
The community thinks of EOS Sweden as Eric and his team.
It would be in good taste for you to change your name. All you are doing by keeping the name is asking for an arbitration case once the chain launches.
My advice still stands. It is best to choose a different name since EOS Sweden is so closely aligned with Eric and his team. If you pop into Telegram and ask who is EOS Sweden, people would say Eric, Vahid, and Sean.
You are still new to the community so I would think there is plenty of time for you to change your name. A name is not worth damaging your reputation in the community.
Do you mean that they are not "SW/Eden"?
Another thing is that we will never do anything illegal. If we will not have any legal justification (and moral justification) then we will not use it (It's so simple). We will only use it if law permits us. Let's see how it goes...
We also respect all communities (including "SW/Eden"). We will never have identical EOS Block Producer ID that matches with Eric's ID (or any other's ID). We may not even be competing with them (for several months) as we are yet in pre-planning phase. We Welcome them in the EOS.IO echo system with open arms...
SW/Eden is the correct name. In the very recent past - before you came along they were EOS Sweden. That's been established.
It's great - you want to be legal. That is really good. I think you might have missed what I wrote about voter confusion though. That's the deal we are talking about - voter confusion. Most people don't do the research they should - that's normal. You showed us that by not looking on the EOSgo BP map. That happens - no big deal.
You might bring up the legal thing again, so let me just say in advance, that's not what any of these other folks are talking about. What we are talking about, is voter confusion and making sure that doesn't happen.
That's all there is to it.
It's great that you don't want anyone to confuse you with SW/Eden, which previously had the name you now use. But it would not be confusing at all if you selected a name that is original. Having worked in marketing for 20 years, I would never advise someone to recycle a business name once used by a different company in the same field because it looks like you want to benefit from their reputation...Unless that is the goal in the first place.
Thanks for advice.... No legal company has registered trademark for EOS Sweden as long as we know... We all are humans and can make mistakes. We need learn for future...
We believe that everyone can contribute and benefit from EOS.IO. Let's we all work together for the greater good and well-being of all global and local societies.
Your name is literally sw/eden's twitter handle. I agree with all the others on this looking more like a Voter confusion move.
Let me know please when you will get confused? In which EOS chain did you get confused? There will be many small and big chains (blockchains)... Maybe you let the whole world know that EOS Sweden and SW/Eden are two different legal entities.... Since, they are two different organizations that will have different ID's in different Blockchains, so you will never be confused...